Contains 7898 photos
View northwest across grassy 1st Street right of way to 6 small houses on Rincon Hill just above sixty foot rocky bluff. Site is now under freeway and Bay Bridge approach [1st St. East side North from 1st dpwbook25 dpw5887]
South Beach
View northwest on 1st Street Between Bryant and Harrison. Edwardian apartments and earthquake shacks on west side of the street. Group of local children in the foreground. (this site is directly under the Bay Bridge, Rincon Hill Anchorage I80) [1st W side N from Bryant][dpwbook25 dpw5889]
Rincon Hill
View southwest to south side of Harrison, Claremont Rooms at corner of 1st Street [Harrison W from Fremont (teamster) dpwbook25 dpw5894]
Rincon Hill
View north past stacks of lumber to Rincon Hill and collection of small houses on top built very close together. Those on right were on the west side of Fremont St. [Fremont W side N from Bryant dpwbook25 dpw5898]
South Beach
View northwest over stacks of lumber to community of small houses atop Rincon Hill from Bryant [Fremont W side looking NW from Bryant dpwbook25 dpw5899]
South Beach
View northwest across 1st St. (now Delancey) from Brannan to Marine Sheet Metal & Plumbing Co. South End Warehouse at right still stands at Federal and Delancey, Rincon Hill beyond. Background left, Weston Basket & Barrel Co. 58-60 Federal, also extant 2021. [dpwbook26 dpw6296]
South Beach
View West on Bryant from Main, Haslett Warehouse, New Oregon Restaurant & Saloon, The American-Hawaiian Bar, M. McClure, Prop. [dpwbook25 dpw5904]
Rincon Hill
View northwest across Main St. to Whitelaw Wrecking Co., 336-338 Main, W.H. Reed & Co. 328-330 Main, Pattern Makers & Wheelwrights, and a view filled with salvaged materials, some of it obviously nautical, a dray wagon and other conveyances. Keystone Boiler Works, 201 Folsom, is large building at far right. Downtown skyline in hazy distance. [Main W side bet Folsom & Harrison dpwbook25 dpw5907]
Rincon Hill
View southeast across Fremont to Pickthall Supply Co., engineers supplies, 321 Fremont; Orton Machine Co., 325 Fremont, E.W. Tucker & Co. engineers, machinists and general contractors,347-349 Fremont, H.W. Lowden Blacksmith, Forge Shop, 7 Zeno Place.[dpwbook24 dpw5819][Fremont East side South from Folsom dpwbook25 dpw5910]
Rincon Hill
View northeast across Fremont to Pickthall Supply Co., engineers supplies, 321 Fremont; E.W. Tucker & Co. engineers, machinists and general contractors,347-349 Fremont [Fremont East side bet Folsom & Harrison dpwbook25 dpw5911]
Rincon Hill
View northeast across Fremont to E.W. Tucker & Co. engineers, machinists and general contractors,347-349 Fremont, St. Brendan's Roman Catholic Church, which replaced a larger St. Brendan's destroyed in the earthquake and fire of 1906. Downtown skyline and Ferry Building in background. [Fremont St East side North from Harrison dpwbook25 dpw5912]
Rincon Hill
Gas station, 'Shell Company of California' at northeast corner of Fell and Stanyan Streets. Panhandle at right. [Fell & Stanyan Sts] dpwbook25 dpw5933]
Panhandle
View west across Van Ness toward Standard Oil gas station. (The station..a replacement facility.. is maintained as the last Standard Oil gas station in the state of California, as of 2020.) Pete Boatman auto repairing in the background. Buildings on Pine have all been demolished. Red Crown Gasoline signs, at left Fisk Rubber Co., Atlas Auto Top Manufacturing Co., Hotel Aetna 1617 Pine, [Van Ness & Pine Sts] [dpwbook25 dpw5934]
Pacific Heights
View East at northeast corner of Baker and Hayes. Standard Oil gas station. [dpwbook25 dpw5935]
Panhandle
View North on Columbus at Mason, Hotel Buona Vista (site of North Beach Library) at right. (original description is wrong) [dpwbook25 dpw5961]
North Beach